Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

    Olalde, I., Allentoft, M. E., Sánchez-Quinto, F., Santpere, G., Chiang, C. W. K., DiGeorgio, M., Prado-Martínez, J., Rodríguez Pérez, J. A., Rasmussen, S., Quilez, J., Ramírez, O., Marigorta, U. M., Fernández-Callejo, M., Prada, M. E., Encinas, J. M. V., Nielsen, R., Netea, M. G., Novembre, J., Sturm, R. A., Sabeti, P. & 4 others, Marquès-Bonet, T., Navarro, A., Willerslev, Eske & Lalueza-Fox, C., 2014, In: Nature. 507, 7491, p. 225-228 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

    Oskam, C. L., Haile, James Seymour, McLay, E., Rigby, P., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Olsen, M. E., Bengtsson, C., Miller, G. H., Schwenninger, J., Jacomb, C., Walter, R., Baynes, A., Dortch, J., Parker-Pearson, M., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Holdaway, R. N., Willerslev, Eske & Bunce, M., 7 Jul 2010, In: Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences. 277, 1690, p. 1991-2000 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Ancient DNA analyses of early archaeological sites in New Zealand reveal extreme exploitation of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) at all life stages

    Oskam, C. L., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Walter, R., Scofield, R. P., Haile, J., Holdaway, R. N., Bunce, M. & Jacomb, C., Oct 2012, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 52, p. 41-48 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven

    Oskam, C. L., Jacomb, C., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Walter, R., Scofield, R. P., Haile, J., Holdaway, R. N. & Bunce, M., 2011, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 38, 10, p. 2589-2595 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic decline and former connectivity in a critically endangered marsupial

    Pacioni, C., Hunt, H., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Vaughan, T. G., Wayne, A. F., Baynes, A., Haouchar, D., Dortch, J. & Bunce, M., 2015, In: Molecular Ecology. 24, 23, p. 5813-5828 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Human Disease Variation in the Light of Population Genomics

    Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Schork, A. J., Sikora, Martin, Stern, A. J., Ilardo, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Folkersen, L., Buil, A., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Geschwind, D., Ingason, A., Werge, Thomas, Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Cell. 177, 1, p. 115-131 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T. L., Rasmussen, M. & 81 others, Campos, P., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Lindo, J., Metspalu, E., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Mansilla, J., Henrickson, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Malmström, H., Stafford jr., T., Shringarpure, S. S., Moreno-Estrada, A., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Bergström, A., Xue, Y., Warmuth, V., Friend, A. D., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Balloux, F., Leboreiro, I., Vera, J. L., Rangel-Villalobos, H., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Davis, L. G., Heyer, E., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Smith, C. I., Grimes, V., Pike, K., Deal, M., Fuller, B. T., Arriaza, B., Standen, V., Luz, M. F., Ricaut, F., Guidon, N., Osipova, L., Voevoda, M. I., Posukh, O. L., Balanovsky, O., Lavryashina, M., Bogunov, Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Gubina, M., Balanovska, E., Fedorova, S., Litvinov, S., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., Mosher, M. J., Archer, D., Cybulski, J., Petzelt, B., Mitchell, J., Worl, R., Norman, P. J., Parham, P., Kemp, B. M., Kivisild, T., Tyler-Smith, C., Sandhu, M. S., Crawford, M., Villems, R., Smith, D. G., Waters, M. R., Goebel, T., Johnson, J. R., Malhi, R. S., Jakobsson, M., Meltzer, D. J., Manica, A., Durbin, R., Bustamante, C. D., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 349, 6250, 6250.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    The rise of genomics in snake venom research: recent advances and future perspectives

    Rao, W. Q., Kalogeropoulos, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Zhao, W., Workman, C. T., Knudsen, C., Jiménez-Mena, B., Seneci, L., Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M., Jenkins, T. P., Rivera-de-Torre, E., Liu, S. Q. & Laustsen, A. H., 2022, In: GigaScience. 11, 16 p., giac024.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Viviparous sea snakes can be used as bioindicators for diverse marine environments

    Rasmussen, A. R., Hay-Schmidt, Anders, Boneka, F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sanders, K. L. & Elmberg, J., 2020, In: Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology. 14, 2, p. 1-16 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Rasmussen, M., Anzick, S. L., Waters, M. R., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford jr., T., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, S. M., Poznik, G. D., Gudmundsdottir, V., Yadav, R., Malaspinas, A. S., White, S. S., Allentoft, M. E., Cornejo, O. E., Tambets, K., Eriksson, A., Heintzman, P. D. & 22 others, Karmin, M., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Meltzer, D. J., Pierre, T. L., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Saag, L., Warmuth, V. M., Lopes, M. C., Malhi, R. S., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Barnes, I., Collins, M., Orlando, L. A. A., Balloux, F., Manica, A., Gupta, R., Metspalu, M., Bustamante, C. D., Jakobsson, M., Nielsen, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Nature. 506, 7487, p. 225-229 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Rasmussen, M., Sikora, Martin, Albrechtsen, Anders, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Poznik, G. D., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Moltke, Ida, Jónsson, H., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Malhi, R. S., Orlando, L. A. A., Bustamante, C. D., Stafford jr., T., Meltzer, D. J., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Nature. 523, 7561, p. 455-458 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

    Rasmussen, S., Allentoft, M. E., Nielsen, K., Orlando, L. A. A., Sikora, M., Sjögren, K-G., Pedersen, A. G., Schubert, M., Van Dam, A., Kapel, C. M. O., Nielsen, H. B., Brunak, S., Avetisyan, P., Epimakhov, A., Khalyapin, M. V., Gnuni, A., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Metspalu, M., Moiseyev, V. & 11 others, Gromov, A., Pokutta, D., Saag, L., Varul, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Cell. 163, 3, p. 571-582 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the steppe

    Saag, L., Varul, L., Scheib, C. L., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Saag, L., Pagani, L., Reidla, M., Tambets, K., Metspalu, E., Kriiska, A., Willerslev, Eske, Kivisild, T. & Metspalu, M., 24 Jul 2017, In: Current Biology. 27, 14, p. 2185-2193 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

    Sabatini, S., Bergerbrant, S., Brandt, Luise Ørsted, Margaryan, Ashot & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11, 9, p. 4909-4925 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. E-pub ahead of print

    Plastic and genomic change of a newly established lizard population following a founder event

    Sabolić, I., Mira, Ó., Brandt, D. Y. C., Lisičić, D., Stapley, J., Novosolov, Maria, Bakarić, R., Cizelj, I., Glogoški, M., Hudina, T., Taverne, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, R., Herrel, A. & Štambuk, A., 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Molecular Ecology. 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects

    Saccò, M., Guzik, M. T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S. J. B., Austin, A. D., Coates, P. J., Allentoft, Morten Erik & White, N. E., 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 820, 14 p., 153223.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

    Saccò, M., Mammola, S., Altermatt, F., Alther, R., Bolpagni, R., Brancelj, A., Brankovits, D., Fišer, C., Gerovasileiou, V., Griebler, C., Guareschi, S., Hose, G. C., Korbel, K., Lictevout, E., Malard, F., Martínez, A., Niemiller, M. L., Robertson, A., Tanalgo, K. C., Bichuette, M. E. & 31 others, Borko, Š., Brad, T., Campbell, M. A., Cardoso, P., Celico, F., Cooper, S. J. B., Culver, D., Di Lorenzo, T., Galassi, D. M. P., Guzik, M. T., Hartland, A., Humphreys, W. F., Ferreira, R. L., Lunghi, E., Nizzoli, D., Perina, G., Raghavan, R., Richards, Z., Reboleira, A. S. P. S., Rohde, M. M., Fernández, D. S., Schmidt, S. I., van der Heyde, M., Weaver, L., White, N. E., Zagmajster, M., Hogg, I., Ruhi, A., Gagnon, M. M., Allentoft, Morten Erik & Reinecke, R., 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 1, 21 p., e17066.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems

    Saccò, M., White, N. E., Harrod, C., Salazar, G., Aguilar, P., Cubillos, C. F., Meredith, K., Baxter, B. K., Oren, A., Anufriieva, E., Shadrin, N., Marambio-Alfaro, Y., Bravo-Naranjo, V. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2021, In: Biological Reviews. 96, 6, p. 2828-2850 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia)

    Saccò, M., White, N. E., Campbell, M., Allard, S., Humphreys, W. F., Pringle, P., Sepanta, F., Laini, A. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2021, In: Water. 13, 14, 18 p., 1899.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave

    Schroeder, H., Margaryan, A., Szmyt, M., Theulot, B., Włodarczak, P., Rasmussen, S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Szczepanek, A., Konopka, T., Jensen, T. Z. T., Witkowska, B., Wilk, S., Przybyła, M. M., Pospieszny, Ł., Sjögren, K-G., Belka, Z., Olsen, J., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, E., Frei, K. M. & 3 others, Sikora, Martin, Johannsen, N. N. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 22, p. 10705-10710

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Pretreatment: Improving endogenous ancient DNA yields using a simple enzymatic predigestion step

    Schroeder, Hannes, de Barros Damgaard, P. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 1 Jan 2019, Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, p. 21-24 4 p. (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1963).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean

    Schroeder, Hannes, Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Poznik, G. D., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Carpenter, M. L., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Sikora, Martin, Johnson, P. L. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Haviser, J. B., Dee, M. W., Stafford, T. W., Salas, A., Orlando, L. A. A., Willerslev, Eske, Bustamente, C. D. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2015, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). 112, 12, p. 3669–3673 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

    Schroeder, H., Sikora, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Cassidy, L. M., Delserc, P. M., Velasco, M. S., Schraiber, J. G., Rasmussen, S., Homburger, J. R., Avila-Arcos, M. C., Allentoft, M. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Renaud, G., Gomez-Carballa, A., Laffoon, J. E., Hopkins, R. J. A., Higham, T. F. G., Carr, R. S., Schaffer, W. C., Day, J. S. & 7 others, Hoogland, M., Salas, A., Bustamante, C. D., Nielsen, R., Bradley, D. G., Hofman, C. L. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. 2341-2346 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Ancient biomolecules reveal ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from Sicily

    Scorrano, Gabriele, Nielsen, S. H., Lo Vetro, D., Mackie, Meaghan, Fabbri, P. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Martini, F., Martanez-Labarga, C., Rickards, O., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Willerslev, Eske, Cappellini, Enrico & Sikora, Martin, 2020, p. 255-255.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave (Sicily, Italy)

    Scorrano, Gabriele, Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark, Vetro, D. L., Sawafuji, R., Mackie, Meaghan, Margaryan, Ashot, Fotaki, Anna Katerina, Martínez-Labarga, C., Fabbri, P. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Carra, M., Martini, F., Rickards, O., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Cappellini, Enrico & Sikora, Martin, 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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